Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Prominent Covid Data Tracker Will Start Scaling Back
Johns Hopkins University is scaling back how much and how frequently it tracks COVID-19 pandemic metrics due to a slowdown in local data reporting, the university confirmed to Axios. (Scribner, 9/14)
More than a year after the lawsuit was filed, an appeals court Tuesday waded into a fight about whether the Florida Department of Health should be required to provide daily COVID-19 data. (Saunders, 9/14)
Older COVID-19 survivors may be at a 69% higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease within 1 year of infection, according to a retrospective study of 6 million Americans 65 years and older published yesterday in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. (Van Beusekom, 9/14)
And a new book claims Melania Trump tried to persuade her husband to do more about covid 鈥
Former first lady Melania Trump worried that her husband was "blowing" the US response to COVID, but he told her she worried too much, a forthcoming book on Donald Trump's presidency reveals. Melania Trump was "rattled by the coronavirus and convinced that Trump was screwing up," wrote New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker and New Yorker staff writer and CNN global affairs analyst Susan Glasser in their new book "The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021." (Gaudiano, 9/14)
She even asked Chris Christie to help persuade Donald Trump that the pandemic should be taken more seriously. Trump wasn鈥檛 moved. 鈥淗e had just dismissed her. 鈥榊ou worry too much,鈥 she remembered him saying. 鈥楩orget it,鈥欌 Baker and Glasser wrote. (Mazza, 9/15)